Proposed Peacehaven sewage works comes under renewed fire
03 April 2009
Southern Water's plans to build a sewage treatment works at Peacehaven to treat wastewater from Brighton and Hove could be delayed for years as protesters seek to block the project through the courts.
East Sussex County Council gave the scheme planning permission last year, and a High Court judge rejected an initial attempt by Peacehaven residents to hold a judicial review of that consent. But campaigners Peacehaven Residents Opposed to Urban Development (Proud), supported by local Labour MP Des Turner, are raising a "fighting fund" to pursue the case through the Appeal Courts and have pledged to take it to the European Court if necessary.
The new treatment works is needed to comply with European Union wastewater directives and the UK government faces infraction proceedings if the scheme does not go ahead.
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just been into our local shop to sign petition to find no front cover explaining what it was for.
ReplyDeleteCould it have been sabotage!!!!!
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